Geyer from Geyersperg

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Coat of arms of the Geyer von Osterberg

The Geyer of Geyersperg (including vultures, Geyer Noble of Osterburg) was an off francs derived Austrian noble family, which in 1650 baron and 1676 by Emperor Leopold I was raised to the imperial counts.

history

Veit Geyer von Geyersperg (Zeisperg) lived in 1370 at the Geyersberg seat in Seßlach in Franconia. His sons Johann and Oswald I are proven by documents from 1401 and 1410. Johann's sons were Kilian Geyer, cathedral dean of Würzburg and 1450 canon of Bamberg, and Diether (Dietrich) Geyer, who was still alive in 1445. His sons Johann and Stephan were both clergymen, the latter was canon of Würzburg in 1470. The son of Oswald I was Bartholomä Geyer († 1468), councilor of Emperor Friedrich III. and father of Oswald II. This is the progenitor of this family, which is divided into four lines after the sons Balthasar, Hanns (Johann), Adam and Georg. Hanns Geyer († 1525) came to Austria in 1482, bought Osterburg near Haunoldstein in 1514 and Hernals in 1515 . With the enfeoffment in 1515, Emperor Maximilian I commissioned Hanns Geyer to bring further relatives into the country. So representatives of all four lines came to Austria, z. B. 1517 Adam and later Simon Geyer. They acquired goods in Upper and Lower Austria, such as Arbing Castle and Gut , Wieselburg , Wolfpassing , Mollenburg , Leesdorf , Karnabrunn and Inzersdorf .

In the course of the disputes between the Catholic ruling house and the predominantly Protestant aristocrats, as in other families, different solutions were found. Some Protestant family members fought on the side of the rebellious Protestants, such as B. Otto Friederich, who died in the battle of the White Mountain . As a result, they were ostracized, their goods confiscated and had to leave the country. Some remained more neutral, like Hanns Christoph, who paid homage to the emperor in 1620 and remained a member of the Lower Austrian regiment until 1642 as a Protestant. Others, like Hanns Ehrenreich, became Roman Catholics again and held higher offices.

Johann (Hanns) Adam, Lord of Geyersperg and Osterburg, (* 1653) Imperial Privy Councilor, and his cousins ​​Wolf Christoph and Maximilian Adam were elevated to imperial count by Emperor Leopold I in 1676. In the middle of the 18th century, the Geyer family in Austria and with Johann Heinrich Ehrenreich Graf Geyersberg and Osterburg in Saxony in 1805 completely died out in the male line.

Personalities

  • Bartholomä Geyer († 1468), Councilor of Emperor Friedrich III.
  • Adam Geyer zu Osterburg, Attorney General of Upper Austria, his son:
  • Hieronymus was also an Upper Austrian state attorney (1554–1557)
  • Johann (Hanns) Geyer von Osterburg , Lord von Wolfstein, Lower Austrian sub-marshal from 1556 to 1561
  • Rudolf von Geyer-Geyersperg (1879–1960), Austrian actor, director and playwright

Tribe list

For an extensive list of tribe (according to Wissgrill), see Geyer von Geyersperg trunk list

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

A black vulture in a golden field pointing to flight with swinging wings. An open helmet adorned with a golden crown, above the crown stands the red Austrian archduke hat, which Emperor Friedrich bestowed upon this family in 1482. The helmet cover is gold and black.

Barons coat of arms

A four-field shield, 1 and 4 the family coat of arms. In fields 2 and 3 in sky blue a large golden star on a triple red hill (coat of arms of the Fuchs von Kandelberg from Franconia). Above are two crowned open helmets, on the right the archduke's hat in a crown and above the vulture - as described in the shield, on the left a ribbon braided with gold and blue ribbons above on the triple red hills a gold star between two buffalo horns, these divided across the right blue above, gold below, gold above left, blue below. The helmet covers are gold and black on the right, gold and blue mixed on the left.

  • Coat of arms of the Geyer lords of Osterberg

  • Coat of arms of Count Geyersperg

  • Coat of arms of the Geyer (Regensburg)

literature

  • Franz Karl Wissgrill, Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from ..., Volume 3, Vienna 1797, p. 284ff.

Web links

Commons : Geyer von Osterburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Gustav Adolf Pönicke (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony III. Section, Markgrafenthum Oberlausitz , p. 175 wikisource
  2. ↑ The coat of arms of the fox came into the family through Walpurga Fuchs, married to Hanns Geyer.

See also